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Day 16~16th April 2014~Elegy Poem

16/4/2014

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For today’s prompt, write an elegy. An elegy doesn’t have specific formal rules. Rather, it’s a poem for someone who has died. In fact, elegies are defined as “love poems for the dead” in John Drury’s The Poetry Dictionary. Of course, we’re all poets here, which means everything can be bent. So yes, it’s perfectly fine if you take this another direction–for instance, I once wrote an elegy for card catalogs. Have at it!


ELEGY POEM

By John Yeo


There is a living memorial to you both
A large aged Oak tree rises above
The pretty lawned area of garden
Where you rest together forever.

The acorns fall from the Oak tree
And cover the grass where you rest
Providing food for wildlife
And branches where songbirds nest.

Two lives lived together as one
A life that you built together
A gardener who grew and tended
A garden that you shared with love.

You came together late in life
Another chapter with a new beginning
Bringing peace to you both with love
Until you both passed on from here.

To meet again somewhere?



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